Brushing Shoulders

Even though I studied film in college, and earned my degree in RTVF, I haven’t done a thing in television or film since leaving school, and I doubt I ever will. I left most of that behind. I don’t keep in touch with most of those people. But a continuing surreal thing that happens is that every now and then I see someone I know/knew/vaguely remember from school in a role on TV or in a movie. It’s weird for me because it’s usually a small role, it’s TV or a movie, and I have a terrible memory for names and a mediocre memory for faces, so sometimes I think I’m just weirding out. Usually, though, if I remember enough of the person’s name to do a search, it turns out I’m right.

Last night I finally got around to watching my TiVoed pilot of Six Degrees or 6 [degree symbol] or whatever it’s choosing to call itself these days, and as Carlos got a cupcake for his birthday, I glanced at his coworkers behind him and one of them looked very familiar. I zoned out on the show for a second, remembering how that girl was from Boulder and had a really unusual voice and trying to think of her name, when off-screen, someone said something to Carlos – just a quick line – and it was that really unusual voice and hey! it’s got to be that girl!

She was in my Analysis & Performance of Literature class (forever to be known as Anal Perf) during the fall of my freshman year. She had cool vintage clothes and that weird voice and her performances were always very good. I still can’t remember her damn name, though. Kristen, maybe?

I don’t think having seasons on DVD would be good for me. I kinda like this “moving around” thing I manage to do with my days and I suspect that me DVD(s!) of that show would = “not movin’ around so much”.

“ever”.

I don’t ever keep up though. I don’t know what channel it’s on or what day or at what time. I’m awful at that… Lorie, do you know anybody on that show?

and ~A , seasons on DVD…are awesome… they’re best for really boring summers when everyone has moved out of your college town back home and there’s nothing good on TV, if you’re stuck in bed, sick days, if you get snowed in for weeks, if the nuclear winter comes and you’re stuck in a bomb shelter… and the like.

I have to admit to having watched a season of one show on DVD while sick with the flu or something last fall.

Because there was nothing else in the house and because we don’t have a tv remote, I watched all 5 dvds of one season of

…Desperate Housewives.

All I can say about it is:
1. I didn’t help me get any better as, instead of sleeping, I just watched one show after the next after the next…
2. I hate the main character lady what’s-her-face-omg-I’m-so-annoying.

_Definitely_ Kristen…something. GAH. She lived in Jones with me. She was in a few Wendy’s commercials a few years ago, including one where she said “Cheeseburgers?” and then paused while moving her head confesedly to the left.

~A, it really IS referred to as Anal Perf by EVERYONE. I lived in the performaing arts dorm and eventually could hear that term without it making me blink at all. And then I actually took it (as a junior) and then it really didn’t matter.

Also, I think that you just called my registering method “old school.”

(We registered online ONCE before I gradumatated, I think. Maybe twice.)

I have no idea about that rumor.

I did not like that class very much at the time, except I had fun bringing my Junior-in-the-Integrated-Arts-program sensibility to a class full of freshman theatre peeps.

I am really bad at memorizing, so I essentially tweaked the instructor by, for instance, using a one sentence poem for a 3 minute performance. And I did this creepy performance based on this story about a voyeuristic perv.